Main entry:

Scott, Felicity Dale Elliston, 1965-

Title & Author:

Architecture or techno-utopia : politics after modernism / Felicity D. Scott.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, ©2007.

Description:

x, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-330) and index.
The (second) machine age and after -- A vital bearing on socialism -- Architecture or techno-utopia -- When systems fail -- Designing environment -- Italian design and the new political landscape -- Revolutionaries or dropouts -- Acid visions -- Shouting apocalypse -- Involuntary prisoners of architecture.
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Dust jacket.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Summary:

"In Architecture or Techno-utopia, Felicity Scott traces an alternative genealogy of the postmodern turn in American architecture, focusing on a set of experimental practices and polemics that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Scott examines projects, conceptual work, exhibitions, publications, pedagogical initiatives, and agitprop performances that had as their premise the belief that architecture could be ethically and politically relevant. Although most of these strategies were far from the mainstream of American architectural practice, Scott suggests that their ambition - the demonstration of architecture's ongoing potential for social and political engagement - was nonetheless remarkable."--Jacket.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780262195621 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262195623 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262514064 (paperback ; alk. paper)
0262514060 (paperback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture and society United States History 20th century.
Architecture and technology United States History 20th century.
Architecture, Postmodern United States.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et société États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture et technologie États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture postmoderne États-Unis.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Architecture and technology.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Architektur
Postmoderne
Architecture United States 20th century
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 254236
Call No.: BIB 184152
Status: Available